SOME AUSTHALIAN WASPS.— HACKEE AND COCKEBELL. 287 



ZOYPHIUM COLLARE, new species. 

 Female. Length 8 mm. Head and thorax finely punctured ; face narrower 

 at vertex than at clypeus, clothed with silver pubescence wbhh extends up the 

 sides of the front ; clypeus with two distinct teeth on each side ; posterior ocelli closer 

 to the eyes than the- diameter of one ; apical joint of antennas not wider than the 

 preceding joint; a deep foveolate groove at the base of the scutellum, anterior to 

 which there is a transverse band of pale yellow pubescence ; median segment finely 

 punctate striate, with a shallow longitudinal sulcus containing a short carina ; at 

 its apical end there are a few transverse striae in a depression su rrounded by a kidney- 

 shaped swelling. Abdomen finely punctured ; apical segment with coarser punctures, 

 and short reddish hair. Second submarginal cell pointed on the radial nervure, 

 receiving the second recurrent nervure slightly beyond the middle. 



Black, base of mandibles, clypeus, scape (except a pale red patch above) 

 and thickened upper border of prothorax creamy- white ; scutellum and post- 

 scutellum rufescent ; flagellum (except dusky apex), abdomen, femora, and tibije 

 ferruginous ; a large creamy- white shining space on apical part of anterior femora 

 beneath ; spurs whitish ; tarsi pale reddish, with dark pulvilli ; nervures and 

 stigma fuscous. 



Hab. — Birkdale, near Brisbane {Hacker), Februar3^ At flowers of Lomatia 

 silaifolia. 



ZOYPHIUM ORNATUM, new species. 



Female. Length 8 mm. Face narrower at vertex than at clypeus, sides 

 straight ; clothed with silver pubescence ; clypeus with two teeth on each side ; 

 posterior ocelli nearly twice as far from each other than from the eyes ; apical joint 

 of antenna? not Avider than the preceding joint ; mesonotum and scutellum opaque, 

 finely and closely punctured ; a deep foveolate transverse groove at the base of the 

 scutellum with a little silver pubescence at each end ; median segment dorsally 

 diagonally striated, with a central longitudinal carina, which ends in a shallow 

 shining sulcus ; basal abdominal segments shining, minutely punctured ; apical 

 segments clothed with thin golden pubescence ; pygidial area triangular, clothed 

 \^ith short hairs; second submarginal cell pointed on the radial nervur* , receiving 

 the second recurrent nervure well beyond the middle. 



Black, base of mandibles, and clypeus creamy- white ; scape and apex of 

 femora, very extensive on anterior pair, pale yellow ; tibiae and tarsi pale reddish, 

 the anterior tarsi with a yellow stripe ; flagellum except dark apex, apical border of 

 first, and all of the remaining abdominal segments ferruginous. 



Male. Length 7 mm. Clypeus without teeth, black with a rather obscure 

 yellow spot on each side near the middle ; hypopygium ending in an acute spine, 

 with an acute spine on either side ; first abdominal segment, except the apical band, 

 black, as in the female. 



^a6.— Birkdale, near Brisbane {Hacker), Februarj-. At flowers of Lomaiia- 

 .Hilaifolia. 



